To think Tattle life isn’t actually that bad?

[Queenofclean101]

Firstly I am not a member, but I do have a read occasionally. I’m sure that there’ll be people here who don’t know what it is, or have never read it, so feel free to ignore. The website is always in the news and there’s a lot of uproar about it.

From what I’ve read and seen on Tattle, it’s no worse/different from the way people speak about celebs and sometimes to each other on mumsnet and other forums. There have been plenty of vicious threads on here about people. Tabloids have always trolled celebs too and they get away with it. Even posting unflattering photos with snidely headlines.

The only difference is tattle is mainly solely about discussing/criticising celebs/influencers.

A lot of influencers tell many lies and exploit their young children in order to sell crap to the public and people on tattle seem to call them out on their lies. Which I don’t think is always a bad thing.

I don’t really get the uproar about this particular website.

They talk about her little girl constantly.

Mocking her appearance and her name and what she eats and where she goes.

They have made up nicknames for her and jokes about her name.

They act all concerned about her welfare, making out it’s so unfair that she’s got a mum as awful as Lauren.
“Poor little thing, she deserves a proper mum”
“her diet is awful, I hope social services get involved.”
“Lauren never does anything with her, she watches Cocomelon 24 hours a day”
“she never gets any exercise, she’s going to end up really struggling with her weight and will end up like her mum”
“poor LaRose doesn’t seem to have anyone in her life that loves her, just LG, and she doesn’t love her”.

Theres worse than that, that’s just off the top of my head.

Imagine when she’s old enough to read that?

Awful!! That really is low. It’s not her daughter’s fault she’s been put on social media. Glad it’s being shut down if they think it’s ok to laugh at little ones.

I don't think the subjects of Tattle Life are random strangers, though. They are not Mrs. Miggins at no. 22. They are public people, publicising themselves for money.

As the site itself explains, adverse reviews, critiques and warnings about 'influencers' can be blocked on their own platforms, there's nowhere else to feed back except sites like tattle which are free from the various shared commercial interests of big platforms.

You also actually need to access Tattle itself to read the crit.

Responsibility for content has always rested with publishers, for the good reason that they control the content. I don't see Mr. Zuckerberg, Mr. Musk or the Newhouse family being impacted by the variously libellous and aggressive content their platforms allow to thrive. But the owner of Tattle, a glorified bulletin board, is on the hook? Nah. Mr. Musk is fond of a bit of libel himself of course but has enough money to make it all go away.

If ordinary people have to reveal their identities to take part in net conversations, they will effectively be shut out of participation and critique of more powerful entities.

Viva Tattle.

Meant to reply to @SuburbanSprawl there. I take a different view from you but discussion is important, I'm glad people are having more discussions about 'the internet' and the megaconglomorates and algorithms which dominate it. Many years ago, as it was just emerging, an academic wrote that the internet could not be a good democratic space for public discussion because it would become dominated by corporate capitalism and would polarise and distort public conversation. How prescient she was.

Still, we have our little spaces - Mumsnet and Tattle Life are more alike than not.

What I don’t like about so called influencers is that if you comment on their post or if you call them out over something & they don’t agree with you, you just get ridiculed. They either delete your comment & block you or else make a video of your comment mocking & making a fool out of you. It’s so nasty & it’s really so unfair to be shut down like that.

@Queenofclean101What I don’t like about so called influencers is that if you comment on their post or if you call them out over something & they don’t agree with you, you just get ridiculed. They either delete your comment & block you or else make a video of your comment mocking & making a fool out of you. It’s so nasty & it’s really so unfair to be shut down like that.

@ExtraOnions Is anyone watching an Irish IG/TikToker that’s saying she’s been stalked & harassed ? I got a message about her, it wasn’t bad or anything, me being nosey I asked what’s it got to do with me & I got a further message which wasn’t that bad either. Her stalker must be someone else if she’s saying she has to keep her family safe

They allow users to mock children, even babies! I cannot believe anyone would defend such a thing.

The likes of Katie Price put themselves out there and thus criticism of them is somewhat fair game, but her kids did not ask for or choose fame! They should be off limits, especially the likes of Harvey!